Friday, 10 October 2014

I've decided I need to blog more!
Even if I don’t have anything finished to show… So here goes….

Last Saturday morning was designated
sew day, so I started sewing my MCalls 6515 Viscose
trousers together. I wasn't sure how the viscose would behave as this is the
first time I've used it – I thought it might pucker as it’s very light, or
might slide around. But in fact it was
remarkably easy and behaved very well. The only thing I did notice was that my
cutting out technique is terrible, I really need to think of a way to complete
it much more neatly (without resorting to rotary cutter all the time).

Having finished two quilt tops
the previous weekend I decided to crack on with the quilting. I had enough fabric (with
a bit of cutting and piecing) in a lurid pink colour for the back of the
Papillion quilt so this went first. I was going to do all the quilting on
one diagonal and across all the points of the squares. I picked out two colours
of pink thread to alternate the rows.

Now that I've done one direction,
I'm thinking that it doesn't look quite right. So I'm going to do the opposite
direction as well.

After sewing time, it was
gardening time. And more specifically “cutting the hedge with the petrol
trimmer with a temperamental 2-stroke engine and very sensitive choke” time.
By the end my arms were dead. The upshot
being that Mal has decided we need to buy a nicer hedge trimmer. Result!

And because photos of hedges
aren't that exciting, you can have a picture of polytunnel
produce. I have to say I'm very impressed with the crop of Ailsa Craig
tomatoes, lots of roasted tomato sauce has been made. Which may have been
the reason for planting that variety in the first place……. Next year I
need to be a bit more on the ball and plant earlier, and get more cherry
tomatoes in as well!